Category: Tōkaidō Road Women
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On the road with Hiroshige’s other women
Volumes have been written about Hiroshige’s evocative series “Fifty-Three Stations of the Tōkaidō” and about the men who pursued the great road’s prurient pleasures. Today I’m looking at the women of the Tōkaidō — all of the women, not only the courtesans.